Friday, November 16, 2012

During the “business
section meeting” in Istanbul we elected the new management team.
Elisenda Ardevol was re-elected as Chair and Gemma San Cornelio and
Veronica Barassi were elected as Vice-Chairs. Following our modus
operandi, we elected two delegates to
assume new roles for the section: Aristea Fotopoulus was elected for
Yecrea representative and Christopher Raetzsch
for webmaster and publications.

In Istanbul there
were some proposals for organizing the next workshop of the section. The new management team is working out the topic and the main ideas for the call for papers, taking into account the future of the event in Bonn University, Germany. We are open to suggestions to develop these ideas thereafter.

The DCC section seeks to increase its relationship with other sections while
maintaining its specificity. Digital culture is more and more
present in other sections since digital communication technologies
have been pervasively introduced in almost every ‘traditional’
media transforming practices of production, circulation and audience
reception. Thus, one of the aims of the DCC section is to strength
its relation with other sections and at the same time, to promote
critical theoretical frameworks and research methodologies in the
field of Digital Culture and Communication, as well as a reflective
understanding of the role of digital media in education and teaching
media studies.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The ECC 12 conference in Istanbul is fast approaching, and we are
getting ready for the business meeting session that will be held on
Thursday 25 October- 13.30 - 14.30, Room A416.

It will be a pleasure to see you there.
Here you find a short agenda for the meeting:

AGENDA:
1. Report on the activities
2. New roles of the section management proposal
3. Election of the section management team
4. Next DCC workshop coordinators, location and topic
5. Open questions and suggestions

About the election process:

The section management team consists of a chair and two vice-chairs,which are responsible for the day-to-day running of the section.
Moreover, following our modus operandi, we will decide to add new roles to be delegated by the section management team related with Social Media presence, Research Projects Coordinator and Yecrea representative, among other possibilities we decide.

All ECREA members are encouraged to assist to the meeting, but only the members of the section should vote. If you are interested in becoming a member of the section, go to your ECREA profile and click "join" Digital Culture and Communication Section.

Mikko Hautakangas, Elina Noppari (University of Tampere)
Managing The Personal as a Resource:Lifestyle Blogs on the Boundaries of Private and Professional
Alexander Sängerlaub (Free University of Berlin), Kirsten Gollatz (Humboldt University)
Facebook at the tipping point - Is there a need for a new valorisation of privacy?
Carolina Martinez (Lund University)
Interopticon - Where the Many Watch the Many
Michel Walrave, Ini Vanwesenbeeck,
Wannes Heirman (University of Antwerp)
Connecting and protecting? Comparing Predictors of Adolescents’ and Adults’
Self-disclosure and Privacy Settings Use in Social Network Sites
Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University)
(Re)Producing Sexual Subjects. Youthful complexities in producing intimacy,
sexuality and desire in social network sites

Christian Stegbauer (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Emergence and Importance of Structure in Internet-based Social Spaces
Dagmar Hoffmann (University of Siegen), Cecil Karges
"Digital Creative Cultures – Case studies of different types of users from popular
Social Commerce and the Bookmarking Service Pinterest
Sabina Misosch (University of Mannheim)
Are inequalities going online? Communication and self-presentation of
borderline patients on the internet
Wolfgang Reissmann (University of Siegen)
Celebrity (youth) culture and new forms of societal inequality
Alexander Mehler (Goethe University Frankfurt)
New Measurements of online collaboration structures in Wikis
Respondent: Jeffrey Wimmer (Technical University Ilmenau)

Monday, May 07, 2012

This is to inform that we have had a great success in our call for papers. A lot of abstracts have been presented at our section and that the reviewers process is finished although it had been very hard. From 157 abstracts submitted, we can afford to accept at last the 57% of them due to the limitations of slots -and although the organization gave us the maximum of slots that was available. Please, if you are coming to Istanbul, send your confirmation, and if not coming, let the organization know it as soon as possible, so we can allocate abstracts from the waiting list. Thanks a lot for your participation!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

The call for proposals is open from 1st of December 2011 to 28 February 2012.

The ECC 2012 in İstanbul will offer a platform for plenary panels addressing the conference theme: SOCIAL MEDIA & GLOBAL VOICES. Proposals for panels and for individual papers and posters are encouraged but not restricted with this theme. Digital Culture and Communication call for papers:

The Digital Culture and Communication section aims at exchanging and developing research at the European level in the developing field of digital media and informational culture as this is broadly defined. We welcome work that crosses disciplines and that operates at the boundaries of what might generally be allowed to constitute media/communication systems. The section actively seeks both empirical and theoretical/critical work. It therefore welcomes work that questions the general specificity of 'the digital' and/or uses 'the digital' to rethink existing media and communication theories and approaches (as well as research methods).

The paper proposals have to be send via ecrea conference general website:

I presented in the Creative Practices strand which was concerned with, “concepts of participation, co-creativity, co-design or co-innovation in creative processes involving audiences and independent creators in a wide spectrum of activities including art, photography, video, and videogames.” My paper offered a draft categorisation of the projects I write about here, according to the type of contribution made by the participants. I’ll give a brief summary of the four categories.

In “The Creative Crowd” model which covers work including Mad V’s The Message, and perry bard’s Man with a Movie Camera; the Global Remix, multiple participants contribute fragments to a highly templated whole, analogous to the separate panels within a quilt. The units of content may not make much sense on their own but value and meaning accrue as they come together producing a distinctive aesthetic that’s about energy and repetition. (Though not a documentary, The Johnny Cash Project is a prime example of this mode.)